In an instant, the entire sky shook violently. Blinding lightning and savage shock waves of power exploded in every direction, and dense spatial rifts spread across the whole expanse of high altitude.
Situ Xuan's ultimate fusion of physical strength and battle intent, honed through a hundred battles, was enough to crush any quasi-god attack in the world, yet before this bolt of destructive purple lightning, he was still suppressed head-on.
The law of the ocean and the power of destruction carried within the lightning were incomparably tyrannical. They surged madly through his fists and scoured every limb and bone in his body. Even with the battle intent of Bloody Battle Across the Eight Wilds reinforcing him and the Nirvana Divine Fire healing and protecting him, he could not fully offset that terrifying impact.
A vast force unlike anything he had ever felt surged back through the point of collision and crushed toward him. Situ Xuan's body retreated step after step beyond his control. With every step he took back, the void beneath him was trampled into thunderous collapse.
Beneath his bronze skin, his blood and qi churned violently. The tiny wounds on his body that had only just healed burst open again, and beads of blood seeped from his flesh. This was the first time since the battle began that someone had forced him back head-on, the first time he had truly suffered a substantial injury.
Just as Situ Xuan steadied himself and prepared to counterattack again, the purple thunderbolt that stretched across heaven and earth abruptly shifted. It gave up its continued assault on Situ Xuan. With a sudden coil of lightning, it accurately enveloped Ha Luosa, who was hanging half-dead in midair, on the verge of perishing.
The instant the lightning wrapped around Ha Luosa, space twisted and